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Plant-Produced Vaccine Antigens: Safe, Cheap, and Stable
Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, April 1st, 1996
By using genetically engineered plant viruses, researchers now have the ability to turn vegetables into efficient factories for producing vaccine antigens.
"The productivity of this system is really quite impressive," said Paul B. Rodgers, director of development for Axis Genetics Ltd., Cambridge, England. "Ten milligrams of purified particles are produced per plant in two to three weeks."
Rodgers described vaccine and therapeutic protein production in plants in an address to the Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Vaccines: New Technologies and Applications...
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